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Public transit is the opposite of self sufficiency, public transit means dependence on others for your basic transportation. It can work fine in normal situati
by ars 1y ago
Public transit is the opposite of self sufficiency, public transit means dependence on others for your basic transportation.
It can work fine in normal situations, but any kind of stress, and anyone without a car is completely stuck. Bad weather, labor strike, high demand, evacuation, moving day, there's a politician in town and roads are closed, there's a celebrity/show in town and you want to go somewhere else, power outage, windstorm and some roads are closed.
Any kind of stress and public transit fails. Which makes it the opposite of self sufficiency.
- NewJazz 1y agoLots of those scenarios you listed show how car based transit fails, too. https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/07/tampa-bay-traffic-jams-thousands-evacuate-before-hurricane-milton/ https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/07/tampa-bay-traf...
- Ericson2314 1y agoAutomobiles do not make for individual self sufficiency. That's propaganda "in the zombie apocalypse the gas stations still work" nonsense. But even if that were true, it also has nothing to do with what I said, which is national self-sufficiency.